Blue Mountains Gday Motel

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 2s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The Gday Motel in the Blue Mountains stands silent. Paint peels from the faded sign, revealing layers of past colours. Empty rooms stare out, their windows reflecting a grey sky. Dust settles on the reception counter, a forgotten welcome.

Edition

Open edition

Open edition
Printed to order, no fixed quantity. Each print is hand-signed by the photographer.

Limited edition
A fixed number of prints exist. Once sold, the edition closes permanently. Each print is individually numbered and signed.

$100.00 AUD

Colour

Signed, numbered, with COA. Made to order in 10 to 20 business days (framed). Shipped in protective packaging with edition certificate, paper-stock reference and a printed care guide.

See certificate sample →

Shipping Free shipping over $250. Ships worldwide, rates calculated at checkout.

Returns Damaged in transit? We replace it. Full policy →

Ships within 10 business days · signed & numbered

In situ

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Blue Mountains Gday Motel
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-029
Process: Giclée
Captured: 4 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 2s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 24 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

New South Wales, Australia

Map · Mapbox · OpenStreetMap

03 THE STORY

About this print

The Blue Mountains G'day Motel sits on the Great Western Highway in the Blue Mountains, the pole sign at the kerb carrying the name with the apostrophised colloquial Australian greeting picked out in white against a backlit panel. The building behind the sign is single-storey, brick, with the room doors facing the front carpark under a continuous awning. The brick is pale, the trim cream. A row of small front gardens between the carpark and the road has been left to dry. The carpark is empty at this hour. The mountain air is cool, the sky above the building dark and full of stars.

The Blue Mountains G'day Motel was photographed at 00:30 on 4 April 2018, on the western run of Hotel Motel 101. The project covered 101 traditional Australian motor inns across three sweeps out of Sydney in late March and early April 2018: south on the Hume, north on the Pacific, west on the Great Western Highway through the Blue Mountains to the Central Western Tablelands. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. The g'day in the name is the standard postwar Australian motel signal that the property was aimed at the domestic trade.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Two storeys of cream brick face an empty car park. Rooms 3, 4 and 5 sit at ground level, their pale doors numbered in dark block type. Window-mounted air conditioners jut from the brickwork between wire-grilled security screens. A single timber bench sits against the wall. Upstairs, teal-painted steel columns support the walkway railing, and room 18 is visible behind a locked gate. Fluorescent light washes the facade in flat, cold white. Every parking bay is vacant. No cars. No people. Just bitumen, line markings and striped concrete wheel stops.

Brett Patman

The series

Hotel Motel 101

2015–2020 · 103 photographs

Hotel Motel 101 is a series of one hundred and one motels photographed in 2018 across three runs out of Sydney. North to the Central Coast, west through the Blue Mountains to the central western tablelands, south down the NSW South Coast. The count crept up from a planned seventy toward the round number, plus one for safety.

View all in this series →

05 SIZE GUIDE

Print sizes

The anatomy view shows what this finish is as a physical object: paper margin, mat band, frame depth, acrylic profile. The comparison strip shows how each size sits relative to the others at true scale. Click a size or a finish to update both.

Anatomy · true ratio